Fourth quarter earnings fell 23.6 percent at AT&T (NYSE: T), which posted net income of $2.4 billion, or 41 cents a share, on revenue of $31.1 billion. Last year, the telecoms giant reported earnings of $3.1 billion, or 51 cents per share. It reported adjusted earnings of 64 cents a share, falling just shy of the $0.65 share estimate from a *Thomson Reuters* poll of analysts. Revenues, which grew 2.4 percent, meeting analyst expectations, were boosted by 13.2 percent growth in its wireless unit and a 14.2 percent increase in wireline IP data revenues. Wireless revenues came in at $12.9 billion, while the wireline business contracted 3.3 percent to $17 billion. Voice revenues, however, were hard hit, as expected, falling 10 percent to $9 billion. The iPhone continued to lure users to its wireless unit, but subsidies of the handset continued to hit EPS. AT&T said $0.07 of the EPS came from its iPhone subsidies, as well as hurricane related expenses and forex impacts. Wireline results are below, and coverage on the wireless unit’s performance is on mocoNews.net…

— U-verse TV service subs up: AT&T had a net gain of 264,000 subscribers to its U-verse TV service in the fourth quarter, up from 232,000 in Q3. At the end of the quarter, subscribers to IP-based TV service totaled